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It's much easier to connect the X4 to wifi and then upload fonts via the web interface. Apart from the initial hassle of entering your wifi password using the buttons (only has to …

Command–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder. ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650 )

Reminds me a bit of the Park Avenue Viaduct in NYC, which has what looks like 90-degree turns when viewed from street level, but apparently the roadway itself has (sharp) curves: h…

Looks like you've basically created an RSS frontend for reuters.com. Which is useful since they seem to have got rid of their own feeds. Would be nice if you could add your own fee…

It's sold by a Chinese company, their software probably doesn't worry much about optimal formatting, since Chinese writing doesn't really have any spaces. It would be nice if korea…

Sounds like "The Last Child Into The Mountain": http://www.williamflew.com/omni54a.html

> Some friends in automotive engineering even tried using pi = 3 Did they end up with engine cylinders that were hexagonal in cross-section?

I'll usually do C-h f (describe-function), then hit tab to make it build a list of all (interactive) functions, and then switch to that buffer and search for whatever I'm intereste…

I also remember a lot of these from the 90s. But I didn't see xphoon, that was a pretty cool one to display a (fairly) detailed picture of the current phase of the moon in your roo…

One problem with SPAXX (which I realized when doing my state taxes last week) is that the monthly dividends it pays aren't exempt from state income tax. I expected that they would …

> $45k is not a livable wage anywhere within an hour commute of Manhattan I think $45k comes out to a take-home of about $2800 per month. I see ads on craigslist for 2-bedroom apar…

"Smart TVs" come to mind, though this is corporate rather than government. For example there's talk of them having an embedded 5G modem so that they're able to phone home even if y…

Haven't seen this mentioned yet, so How to Solve It (1945) by George Pólya? I haven't read it myself so I can't comment (I'm a muddy thinker and rubbish problem solver), but I thin…

Politico.eu has a weekly "print edition" (you can download the pdf from their site) and I feel it's not too far from The Economist in terms of subject matter, and goes into more de…

My thinking is that in this alternate universe where pi=3, circles (with diameter 2 * pi * r) will look like hexagons (which have diameter 2 * 3 * r), so wheels would have to be he…

But it comes in handy in the alternate universe where pi=3.

>Isn't this just a puff piece for hacker-rank? Bloomberg (the tech side of the company, not the journalism side that produced this article) uses HackerRank for developer hiring too…

I was under the impression that European wire transfers were cheap (free), fast, and reliable. If that's true, why is something like PayPal even needed? Can't Seafile just have the…

I'd be suspicious of a building that uses Comic Sans on its awning.

For me, 18.59 was the last real solid release.

This reminded me of a game I had read about, and looking it up, the game was RobotWar, which is mentioned as an inspiration for CROBOTS. There's an interesting article in an old is…

I think the numpads exist because just about all laptop screens are 16:9 now, which forces the keyboard area to be wider (compared to a 4:3 screen, for example). Without a numpad t…

> Try solving these actual examples: First one: a rhaval Second one: a onsupsel You need to realize that only one word needs to be entered. For the other word just enter any string…

I think the difference is that you're paying (a lot) to be in college, while you're being paid (hopefully a lot) to do your job. So it's not realistic to expect to be treated the s…